GlumWoodpecker

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IT professional from Norway. My tech blog: https://datalars.com/
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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Theatres need a piece of the pie too :^)
Comment · 2 months ago
I've been waiting for this feature! Whenever I've encountered an animated WebP, I've had to drop it into ezgif.com to convert it to mp4, now I can just write a quick Bash function to transform it with ffmpeg.
Comment · 3 months ago
KOReader is fantastic! I use it on my pocket-sized Xiaomi InkPalm 5 to read anywhere (I carry it at all times along with my phone). The combination of KOReader and the ease of use due to the size of the device has enabled me to read many more books than I used to, so I'm very happy with it. Being able to just turn on wifi and click "calibre" > "connect" to transfer books from my PC is a killer feature—the stock Kindle I keep in bed has to connect via USB to transfer new content (I don't use Amazon to buy content for it).
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Disagree. The word "native" in a software execution context has a very specific meaning—it means that the software is running on the target hardware with no emulation, translation layer or modification by any middleware. Games running through Proton/WINE will never be native, by definition.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
HN (and Reddit) are not social media, they are forums. Social media are platforms where the main purpose is to socialise. Forums are platforms where the main purpose is to discuss the topic of any given thread. Just because you can talk to someone, doesn't make it social media. I will die on this hill.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
If I ran it with just

    $ chmod +x snake.com
    $ ./snake.com
... then it would try to use Mono to launch it:

    Cannot open assembly './snake.com': File does not contain a valid CIL image.
But, running it explicitly with Bash works:

    $ bash snake.com
Pretty nifty but doesn't work out of the box on any Linux, at least :p Running Debian 13.
Comment · 9 months ago
>- Linux comes in finite but vastly more combinations than OSX and Windows which means you are probably going to need to pick something like Ubuntu or struggle with the above

This is easily solvable by distributing the app via a distro agnostic mechanism, like as a Flatpak or AppImage. Using Flatpak also eliminates the need for rolling their own app update mechanism.

Comment · 10 months ago
Way to miss the point entirely.

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